In a new PLoS ONE study, Blais and colleagues report that facial recognition may vary culturally, with Western Caucasians tending to fixate on the eyes and the mouth and East Asians fixating more on the central region of the face in order to extract information. The Telegraph, Science NOW, Newsweek and LiveScience all ran stories on the article.
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